Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers: Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change

In this video of a session from the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2012, approaches to the use of data and informational visualization are demonstrated and discussed.   

Topics include: "Organization culture and practice: What does it take for organizations to systematically use their data?  Approaches and tools: What are the basic guidelines for designing and using data and information visualizations? What are the go-to tools?  Exciting examples: What are some great examples from nonprofits?  Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more!

Session Takeaways

1. To understand why organizational culture and standard operating procedures are important to developing and maintaining data/infoviz practice 
2. To learn why and how visuals strengthen communications and improve the likelihood of your message cutting through the clutter 
3. To share techniques and low costs tools for data visualization that nearly any user can begin using quickly." (Kanter, Kennedy & Morariu, 2012)

This webpage also includes links to downloadable resources that were used during the original presentation.